Nearly a year before Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired senior FBI official Andrew McCabe for what Sessions called a “lack of candor,” McCabe oversaw a federal criminal investigation into whether Sessions lacked candor when testifying before Congress about contacts with Russian operatives, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.

Democratic lawmakers have repeatedly accused Sessions of misleading them in congressional testimony and called on federal authorities to investigate, but McCabe’s previously-unreported decision to actually put the attorney general in the crosshairs of an FBI probe was an exceptional move.

One source told ABC News that Sessions was not aware of the investigation when he decided to fire McCabe last Friday less than 48 hours before McCabe, a former FBI deputy director, was due to retire from government and obtain a full pension, but an attorney representing Sessions declined to confirm that.

Last year, several top Republican and Democratic lawmakers were informed of the probe during a closed-door briefing with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and McCabe, ABC News was told.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should be allowed to conduct research on the dangers of gun violence. The fact that they are currently prohibited from doing so undermines the first amendment. It also violates the rights of the American people.

It is hypocritical to rally people to protect the second amendment, while remaining silent on the ways that blocking research violates one of our most basic constitutional freedoms.

“Raise the firearm purchase age to 21”
“Dedicate more funds to mental health research and professionals”
“Increase funding for school security”

Heartbreaking: "Draylen Mason, the 17-year-old high school student who was one of two people killed in the Austin bombings would have learned Friday that he had been admitted to the prestigious Oberlin Conservatory of Music" https://t.co/kpuaGV1GBf

Just stumbled across that info …and went over to WaPo to read Givhan’s article..

I’ve never had much use for Robin Givhan who’s always had her own very dubious agenda; And has always been in my opinion, stupendously green-eyed, spiteful, shady.. and from day one, was always on a mission to take the shine off ..

“I couldn’t count on my husband’s campaign to protect me; I had to protect myself,” she said. “They were using me like I was a candidate and supporting me like I was a spouse.”

I’d only add instead of ‘spouse’ …black woman… Because no way they’d have treated her like that if she were any other color.. I’ve seen some of the very same folks very aggressively playing save a damsel for the buffoon’s imported 3rd wife..

Someday, what this historic FLOTUS had to deal with and put up with, the disrespect and dehumanization she suffered and to some extent continues to – even at the hands of the ‘progessive’ racists, snakes, vultures, political opportunists and hangers-on who sniffed and circled around her husband, will be told.. But right now, she still continues to hold in a whole lot.. and still has to mostly chin up, and grin through scars and the very painful experiences as the first black woman – routinely dehumanized, disrespected, largely unsupported and unprotected – in that role..

And even if she never tells, that younger daughter of hers will someday..

They asked lawyer Eddie Sexton to drop the woman as a client and say publicly that he did not believe her. The damaging statement would be given to Breitbart News, then run by former White House strategist Stephen K. Bannon.

In exchange, Sexton said in recent interviews, the men offered to pay him $10,000 and promised to introduce him to Bannon and others in the nation’s capital. Parts of Sexton’s account are supported by recorded phone conversations, text messages and people in whom he confided at the time.

JOSHUA KUSHNER, A venture capitalist and the younger brother of White House adviser Jared Kushner, met with Qatari Finance Minister Ali Sharif Al Emadi the same week as his father, Charles Kushner did last April 2017, in an independent effort to discuss potential investments from the Qatari government. Both meetings took place at Al Emadi’s St. Regis Hotel suite in Manhattan.

GREAT MILLS, Md. (AP) — A teenage girl who was shot when a classmate opened fire inside their Maryland high school is brain dead and is being removed from life support, her mother said Thursday

Melissa Willey told news reporters Thursday night that her daughter, 16-year-old Jaelynn Willey has “no life left in her.” She said Jaelynn would be removed from life support during the evening.

The teen was shot Tuesday by 17-year-old Austin Rollins at Great Mills High School in St. Mary’s County.

Rollins died after shooting Willey. A school resource officer got there within a minute and fired a shot at Rollins, but it’s not yet clear whether Rollins was killed by the officer’s bullet or took his own life.

The St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday Rollins and the girl had been in a relationship that recently ended.

“All indications suggest the shooting was not a random act of violence,” police said in a statement.

THE LAST WORD WITH LAWRENCE O’DONNELL 3/22/18Trump ‘would like to’ talk to Mueller, as top lawyer out
Trump says he wants to talk to Mueller as his top Russia lawyer leaves his legal team. A new report says Trump associate Roger Stone had direct contact with a Russian agent during the 2016 presidential campaign. Mieke Eoyang & David Corn join Lawrence O’Donnell.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The top cop for U.S. consumer finance has decided not to sue a payday loan collector and is weighing whether to drop cases against three payday lenders, said five people with direct knowledge of the matter.

The move shows how Mick Mulvaney, named interim head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) by U.S. President Donald Trump, is putting his mark on an agency conceived to stamp out abusive lending.

The payday loan cases are among about a dozen that Richard Cordray, the former agency chief, approved for litigation before he resigned in November. Cordray was the first to lead the agency that Congress created in 2010 after the financial crisis.

Jay-Z stated, “We want to make sure that we stand and support and we never forget [that] Trayvon serves as a beacon of light to the people out here, so you guys never have to go through the pain and hurt that these guys went through. His name will sit alongside some of the greats [who] lost their life to push our culture forward—the Martin Luther Kings, the [Gandhis]; that’s the intention that we set, that his name serves as a beacon of light and hope, and pushes us into a better direction.”

Elliott Broidy, a top fundraiser for President Donald Trump, offered last year to help a Moscow-based lawyer get Russian companies removed from a U.S. sanctions list.

Broidy made the offer after an inquiry from Andrei Baev, an energy lawyer at Chadbourne & Parke LLP, both men acknowledged in statements to Bloomberg News this week. In a proposal sent to Baev shortly before Trump’s January 2017 inauguration, Broidy sketched out a potential campaign to influence top U.S. officials, according to a person with knowledge of the talks who spoke on condition of anonymity.

I have absolutely no words… Thank you not only for your service but for standing with us as we #MarchForOurLives tomorrow all over the world #VeteransForGunReform #GunControlNow #NeverAgain https://t.co/RIqLXq55MC pic.twitter.com/TYDiV7czCa

Mark Landler, White House correspondent for the New York Times, talks with Rachel Maddow about Donald Trump firing his second national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, and replacing him with extreme hawk John Bolton.

“On March 24, the kids and families of March For Our Lives will take to the streets to demand that their lives and safety become a priority, and that we end gun violence in our schools and communities.”

Fueled by Democrat Doug Jones' stunning upset Senate win, the #MeToo movement, opposition to Trump and a desire to carry on Obama's legacy, a record number of black women are running for office in Alabama https://t.co/htVhDAgwIc

A push to pass a bill granting citizenship to immigrants brought into the country illegally as children was blocked in the Senate on Thursday.

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) — noting that a mammoth funding bill currently being debated by the chamber doesn’t include a fix for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients — asked for unanimous consent to pass the DREAM Act.

“We have this 2000 page bill which addresses every subject imaginable, but doesn’t address the looming deadline that we face in America where [we’re] one court decision away from hundreds of thousands of young people being deported,” he said.

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) – A local dreamer is fighting for a chance to see his dying grandfather in Mexico.

Luis Tinoco, who was brought to the United States in 1989 when he was five-years-old, received protective status under DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program enacted during the Obama Administration.

In the past, DACA recipients have been allowed to travel to their country of origin during emergencies if they obtained an “advanced parole” permit from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

On Thursday, Tinoco and his lawyer submitted an application at the UCIS office in Downtown San Diego. But they said it was denied.

"Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and other law enforcement officials will hold a press conference Friday, March 23, 2018 for a major cyber law enforcement announcement." pic.twitter.com/17mL8ofhTL

My name is Jada Wiltz and I’m now a part of Wellesley College Class Of 2022!!💜Wellesley is ranked #3 in liberal arts colleges! One of the top ranked girls colleges! GO BLUE💙💙 @Wellesleypic.twitter.com/luDZMxH8z3

"Hell, even George Bush wasn’t crazy enough to let Bolton serve as his National Security Advisor. But Trump is. He wants someone who agrees that we should threaten every bad guy on earth with war, and Bolton’s that guy." https://t.co/xE85i3wgub

Stormy Daniels’s Lawyer Michael Avenatti "They have stepped into every trap we have laid in this case the last 2 weeks. It’s remarkable. I’ve never seen anything like it. I’ve never had good fortune like this OK. We’re going to keep shooting till we miss.” https://t.co/onETJzDvuO

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